City populated by wooden automata

Motif

City populated by wooden automata.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic automata. · view the constellation · filed as D1628

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Penzer III 58f., 281ff.

Within the index

Filed under Magic automata. Statues or images that act as if alive. (Cf. D1523.2.8.)

Filed beside it

Automatic doll. (Cf. D1268.)Automatic statue of man Automatic statue of animal Other automatic constructions Image renders judgments Image indicates favor to suppliant. (Cf. D1639.3, V120.)Image dresses self. (Cf. D1268, V120.)Image bleeds Statue weeps Image flies through air Dancing automata. (Cf. D1646.)Images of animals ridden (driven)Images open and close eyes Image eats or drinks Golem. Automatic statue animated by insertion of written magic formula into an opening Automata: other motifs

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